CRN Storage News

A new appliance for running enterprise applications and a way to connect to public cloud storage capacity could help hyper-converged infrastructure solution developer Nutanix grow its potential market.

Zadara's OPaaS, or On-Premise-as-a-Service, may be an odd name, but the company said the term is the best descriptor for a solution that allows data stored on an on-premise array to be provided as a pay-as-you-need-it service.

How much a company raises on a crowdfunding site is not always indicative of how much they can squeeze out of a venture capital firm. New research, however, does show getting a leg up on Kickstarter or Indiegogo can help later in wooing a VC to sit at the table with a startup.

Nth Generation Computing's annual Nth Symposium brought HP's CIO and CTO, along with top executives from VMware, Intel and others, to present the latest trends and technology to officials from a wide range of enterprise and government organizations.

Quantum acquired the assets and development team of cloud-based data protection developer Symform and plans to turn the prosumer and small business technology into one that will bring backup, archiving and file sync and share to the enterprise.

Dell is pushing ahead on plans to merge its various storage platforms, especially its Compellent and EqualLogic lines, while pursuing a partner strategy for software-defined storage as part of its 'Blue Thunder' project.

The CEO discussed calls by an activist investor for EMC to sell its VMware business by noting how important the EMC Federation, which includes several businesses including VMware, is to helping customers prepare their IT infrastructures for the future.